33 Wasted
"Gawd, I ran into the window like an idiot. They probably have me now."
Sia opens her eyes to the comforting white walls of immersive mode.
"Oh man. Why did I hurt so badly?"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER WAS ORDERED TO REMOVE ALL ENHANCEMENTS
WHICH INCLUDE THE PAIN RECEPTION NULLIFIERS
ENHANCED RUNNING STRESSES THE BODY AND TEARS LIGAMENTS MOMENTARILY BEFORE THEY ARE COMPLETELY HEALED WITHOUT FURTHER ATTENTION BEING NEEDED
"Do you mean whenever you say you are enhancing my lower extremities …. You're messing up my legs?"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER HEALS ALL INJURIES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
WITH LOW ENERGY LEVELS IT IS DONE AT A DECREASED SPEED ACCORDING TO SEVERITY OF INJURY
"Are my limbs healed now?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"I hit my head, didn't I?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Is that healed as well?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Did the men catch up to me?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Dammit. I'm such an idiot. I'm the one who set that window up that way. I thought it would hurt someone chasing after me, not me."
SUBJECT 001'S MEMORIES ARE FLAWED
UPLOADING MEMORY FILES…
LOSS OF TIME CONFIRMED
12 MINUTES MISSING FROM MEMORY FILES
"Was I unconscious for 12 minutes?"
AFFIRMATIVE
APEX ASSUMED CONTROL OF SUBJECT 001'S VESSEL
"WHAT?!"
AFFIRMATIVE
APEX ASSUMED CONTROL OF SUBJECT 001'S VESSEL
"No! I mean…Wha….," Sia nervous laughs and grabs a handful of hair in her hands.
"Nooo. Not again," She slides down against the wall and sits.
"Okay…Okay. What did Apex do? He? She?"
APEX IS THE DESIGNATION OF A MALE ORGANISM
THE ENTITY RESPONDS TO MALE PRONOUNS
"What did he do?"
APEX ENSURED SUBJECT 001 INTERCEPTED THE MALES SENT BY "DENNIS" TO RETRIEVE SUBJECT 001
SUBJECT 001 IS NOW WITHIN THEIR VEHICLE
"OH."
Sia slides her hands out of her hair and onto her eyes.
"Oh no. Oh no."
She knocks back her head to hit the wall and shouts, "Does he want me to die or something?! Who would go back into the hands of those guys! They killed Greg! They know I'm not who I said I am…Now they'll kill me!!"
NEGATIVE
ENTITIES UNDER THE DESIGNATION SAVAGES KILLED THE WANDERER UNDER THE DESIGNATION GREG
"You heard what Vanessa said. You know what happened. They set him up. They set him up, and this KELLY! Kelly says they'll torture me. For information, I don't have! Does he NOT know this?"
NEGATIVE
APEX HAS VIEWED ALL EVENTS OBJECTIVELY
INTERCEPTING THE PURSUERS TO ACQUIRE THEIR VEHICLE WAS APEX'S PLAN OF ACTION
Sia pauses and looks up at the bright ceiling.
"Acquire their vehicle?"
AFFIRMATIVE
WEATHER DOES NOT PERMIT TRAVELING BY FOOT
APEX'S PLAN ADDS 60% SUCCESS TO OVERALL ESCAPE
"What else did he plan? Did he say anything? Did you give him my message?"
AFFIRMATIVE
SUBJECT 001'S MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED WITH A FAVORABLE REACTION FROM ADMINISTRATION 001 – APEX
RECORDED MESSAGE FOR SUBJECT 001
FROM APEX
PLAYING MESSAGE 002
"Saw hurt. Seizure Freak. Now."
MESSAGE 002 END
Sia touches her throat after listening to the message. It sounds like her voice…but different.
"Saw hurt….seizure freak…now? Why was that in my voice? Why did I sound like that? I don't usually sound like that."
APEX'S USAGE OF SUBJECT 001'S VOICE BOX IS DISTINCT
"Sure is."
Sia rubs her throat once more and then blinks.
"Does he want me to distract them with a seizure?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"I…I don't think I can do that."
…
"But I'll try. We need their vehicle to aid in our escape. He's right. It was getting cold. I wouldn't last long with a snowstorm on its way."
ACCURATE INFERENCE
"Okay. What position am I in within their car?"
SUBJECT 001 IS LYING ON THE FLOOR OF THEIR VEHICLE
"Face up or down?"
SUBJECT 001'S FACE IS PRESSED AGAINST THE FLOOR OF THEIR VEHICLE
"Good. Okay. That's easier. Let me go."
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The rumbling of an engine can be heard. The van bounces as it drives over rocks on the bumpy road. The snow obstructs the drivers' view of the terrain and makes it hard to avoid holes.
"F*&%, slow down. I don't want to be stuck out here for days," Kelly says.
Sia can hear the voice right above her. After another bump, the driver turns his wheel sharper and Sia's body slides into a boot.
"Dammit, Uzu. Can you see anything out there?" Sia hears Cranky grumble from the other side of her.
The boot she slid onto kicks at her abdomen and pulls from under her.
'Friggin sludgebag.' She thinks.
She tries to stay relaxed. Tensing up would alert the men to her return to consciousness. She keeps her breathing slow and listens a bit longer.
"We'll have to wait out the storm. Just look for a place to pull over with some cover, Uzu," Kelly urges the driver.
'Hoody must be driving," Sia thinks.
"Aye, Aye," Uzu says with false cheer.
He squints at the darkness in front of the van and tries to find a spot to rest the vehicle until the storm passes. There is no way to spot good hiding spots with this blizzard raging around them, but they could at least be less in the open. He remembers spotting a broken-down home at the edge of the city. If they can get close enough, he can park the van inside it.
"Aagh! The f&*^?!"
Sia begins shaking her body at a high speed and flailing her arms in sync. She wildly looks around to see what the men are doing. Cranky has pulled his legs up from the ground and is trying to point his gun at her. Kelly is standing with his back bent at the low ceiling. He has his arms out, trying to restrain her, but not able to get a firm grip of her limbs.
'uuh…help me foam at the mouth or something!' She commands the device.
Before Sia knows it, she can no longer breath and her eyes roll into the back of her head.
'Is this a side effect of her hitting her head?!' Kelly thinks.
White foam starts seeping out of her mouth and her eyes sockets are white as the eyeballs roll into the back of her head. She is making choking noises and rolling around the back of the van.
"Is she infected with something? The fu*&?! Get her out! What is that?!" Cranky shrieks before dropping his gun and hopping past her to climb into the front compartment.
Uzu hears the commotion and tries to look back but is shouldered in the face by Cranky as he rushes to the passenger seat.
"Ow…the heck, Manu! What are you doing?!" Uzu yells at the other man.
"That b**&^ is sick! Pull over! Pull over!"
Uzu pats his nose with one hand and turns the wheel with the other.
SCREEEEEEEECH
The car slides to stop and bumps over some rocks. The passenger door opens before the car is at a complete stop and Manu hops out. He takes several steps to the side away from the vehicle holding his jacket to his mouth.
"Manu, You idiot! Stop," Kelly shouts.
He opens the sliding door of the van and walks around the back to get to Manu's retreating form.
Uzu looks at the back where the woman is still shaking and foaming at the mouth. Then he looks out the side window where his leader and Manu are arguing. He looks back at the woman's form and the shaking seems to be lessening. He sighs and gets out of the car.
"She might just be dying. You said you thought she brained herself earlier on that window. That must be it," Uzu calmly tells the two men.
"I know that," Kelly says with one hand holding Manu's bicep, "Tell this fool of a man that. He thinks she's infected with a disease."
Manu weakly slaps at Kelly's hand and points at the van, "That's early stages of smallpox or something! I ain't catching that. Let's dump her."
Kelly scoffs at the spastic male. Uzu pulls his hood down to cover more of his face and laughs at Manu.
"That is not a symptom of smallpox, you dunce," Uzu says before grasping Manu's shoulder.
Manu scowls at Uzu's hand.
"Look. Just go see. She's probably dead by now," Uzu reassures the other man.
BANG
The sliding door of the van closes, and all three men look at the dirty van. They see a form jump into the front seat.
Kelly looks at Uzu, "Do you have the…"
The van starts up. Manu shakes off the other two men's hands and runs for the van.
"Dammit!!" Kelly yells as he dives for the passenger door.
Uzu touches his forehead and groans.
As the car speeds off to the side, back onto the bumpy road, the passenger door flaps open and closed. Kelly grabs the door and is slammed into the side of the vehicle.
"Stop! Stop the car!!" He yells at the woman.
Sia grabs the rifle she picked up from the back area of the van, barrel first, and tries to hit Kelly's head with the hilt of the gun. Kelly releases the door handle and falls to the rocky ground. The rifle slips from Sia's hand and flies out of the doorway.
Sia opens her eyes to the comforting white walls of immersive mode.
"Oh man. Why did I hurt so badly?"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER WAS ORDERED TO REMOVE ALL ENHANCEMENTS
WHICH INCLUDE THE PAIN RECEPTION NULLIFIERS
ENHANCED RUNNING STRESSES THE BODY AND TEARS LIGAMENTS MOMENTARILY BEFORE THEY ARE COMPLETELY HEALED WITHOUT FURTHER ATTENTION BEING NEEDED
"Do you mean whenever you say you are enhancing my lower extremities …. You're messing up my legs?"
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPER HEALS ALL INJURIES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
WITH LOW ENERGY LEVELS IT IS DONE AT A DECREASED SPEED ACCORDING TO SEVERITY OF INJURY
"Are my limbs healed now?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"I hit my head, didn't I?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Is that healed as well?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Did the men catch up to me?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"Dammit. I'm such an idiot. I'm the one who set that window up that way. I thought it would hurt someone chasing after me, not me."
SUBJECT 001'S MEMORIES ARE FLAWED
UPLOADING MEMORY FILES…
LOSS OF TIME CONFIRMED
12 MINUTES MISSING FROM MEMORY FILES
"Was I unconscious for 12 minutes?"
AFFIRMATIVE
APEX ASSUMED CONTROL OF SUBJECT 001'S VESSEL
"WHAT?!"
AFFIRMATIVE
APEX ASSUMED CONTROL OF SUBJECT 001'S VESSEL
"No! I mean…Wha….," Sia nervous laughs and grabs a handful of hair in her hands.
"Nooo. Not again," She slides down against the wall and sits.
"Okay…Okay. What did Apex do? He? She?"
APEX IS THE DESIGNATION OF A MALE ORGANISM
THE ENTITY RESPONDS TO MALE PRONOUNS
"What did he do?"
APEX ENSURED SUBJECT 001 INTERCEPTED THE MALES SENT BY "DENNIS" TO RETRIEVE SUBJECT 001
SUBJECT 001 IS NOW WITHIN THEIR VEHICLE
"OH."
Sia slides her hands out of her hair and onto her eyes.
"Oh no. Oh no."
She knocks back her head to hit the wall and shouts, "Does he want me to die or something?! Who would go back into the hands of those guys! They killed Greg! They know I'm not who I said I am…Now they'll kill me!!"
NEGATIVE
ENTITIES UNDER THE DESIGNATION SAVAGES KILLED THE WANDERER UNDER THE DESIGNATION GREG
"You heard what Vanessa said. You know what happened. They set him up. They set him up, and this KELLY! Kelly says they'll torture me. For information, I don't have! Does he NOT know this?"
NEGATIVE
APEX HAS VIEWED ALL EVENTS OBJECTIVELY
INTERCEPTING THE PURSUERS TO ACQUIRE THEIR VEHICLE WAS APEX'S PLAN OF ACTION
Sia pauses and looks up at the bright ceiling.
"Acquire their vehicle?"
AFFIRMATIVE
WEATHER DOES NOT PERMIT TRAVELING BY FOOT
APEX'S PLAN ADDS 60% SUCCESS TO OVERALL ESCAPE
"What else did he plan? Did he say anything? Did you give him my message?"
AFFIRMATIVE
SUBJECT 001'S MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED WITH A FAVORABLE REACTION FROM ADMINISTRATION 001 – APEX
RECORDED MESSAGE FOR SUBJECT 001
FROM APEX
PLAYING MESSAGE 002
"Saw hurt. Seizure Freak. Now."
MESSAGE 002 END
Sia touches her throat after listening to the message. It sounds like her voice…but different.
"Saw hurt….seizure freak…now? Why was that in my voice? Why did I sound like that? I don't usually sound like that."
APEX'S USAGE OF SUBJECT 001'S VOICE BOX IS DISTINCT
"Sure is."
Sia rubs her throat once more and then blinks.
"Does he want me to distract them with a seizure?"
AFFIRMATIVE
"I…I don't think I can do that."
…
"But I'll try. We need their vehicle to aid in our escape. He's right. It was getting cold. I wouldn't last long with a snowstorm on its way."
ACCURATE INFERENCE
"Okay. What position am I in within their car?"
SUBJECT 001 IS LYING ON THE FLOOR OF THEIR VEHICLE
"Face up or down?"
SUBJECT 001'S FACE IS PRESSED AGAINST THE FLOOR OF THEIR VEHICLE
"Good. Okay. That's easier. Let me go."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
The rumbling of an engine can be heard. The van bounces as it drives over rocks on the bumpy road. The snow obstructs the drivers' view of the terrain and makes it hard to avoid holes.
"F*&%, slow down. I don't want to be stuck out here for days," Kelly says.
Sia can hear the voice right above her. After another bump, the driver turns his wheel sharper and Sia's body slides into a boot.
"Dammit, Uzu. Can you see anything out there?" Sia hears Cranky grumble from the other side of her.
The boot she slid onto kicks at her abdomen and pulls from under her.
'Friggin sludgebag.' She thinks.
She tries to stay relaxed. Tensing up would alert the men to her return to consciousness. She keeps her breathing slow and listens a bit longer.
"We'll have to wait out the storm. Just look for a place to pull over with some cover, Uzu," Kelly urges the driver.
'Hoody must be driving," Sia thinks.
"Aye, Aye," Uzu says with false cheer.
He squints at the darkness in front of the van and tries to find a spot to rest the vehicle until the storm passes. There is no way to spot good hiding spots with this blizzard raging around them, but they could at least be less in the open. He remembers spotting a broken-down home at the edge of the city. If they can get close enough, he can park the van inside it.
"Aagh! The f&*^?!"
Sia begins shaking her body at a high speed and flailing her arms in sync. She wildly looks around to see what the men are doing. Cranky has pulled his legs up from the ground and is trying to point his gun at her. Kelly is standing with his back bent at the low ceiling. He has his arms out, trying to restrain her, but not able to get a firm grip of her limbs.
'uuh…help me foam at the mouth or something!' She commands the device.
Before Sia knows it, she can no longer breath and her eyes roll into the back of her head.
'Is this a side effect of her hitting her head?!' Kelly thinks.
White foam starts seeping out of her mouth and her eyes sockets are white as the eyeballs roll into the back of her head. She is making choking noises and rolling around the back of the van.
"Is she infected with something? The fu*&?! Get her out! What is that?!" Cranky shrieks before dropping his gun and hopping past her to climb into the front compartment.
Uzu hears the commotion and tries to look back but is shouldered in the face by Cranky as he rushes to the passenger seat.
"Ow…the heck, Manu! What are you doing?!" Uzu yells at the other man.
"That b**&^ is sick! Pull over! Pull over!"
Uzu pats his nose with one hand and turns the wheel with the other.
SCREEEEEEEECH
The car slides to stop and bumps over some rocks. The passenger door opens before the car is at a complete stop and Manu hops out. He takes several steps to the side away from the vehicle holding his jacket to his mouth.
"Manu, You idiot! Stop," Kelly shouts.
He opens the sliding door of the van and walks around the back to get to Manu's retreating form.
Uzu looks at the back where the woman is still shaking and foaming at the mouth. Then he looks out the side window where his leader and Manu are arguing. He looks back at the woman's form and the shaking seems to be lessening. He sighs and gets out of the car.
"She might just be dying. You said you thought she brained herself earlier on that window. That must be it," Uzu calmly tells the two men.
"I know that," Kelly says with one hand holding Manu's bicep, "Tell this fool of a man that. He thinks she's infected with a disease."
Manu weakly slaps at Kelly's hand and points at the van, "That's early stages of smallpox or something! I ain't catching that. Let's dump her."
Kelly scoffs at the spastic male. Uzu pulls his hood down to cover more of his face and laughs at Manu.
"That is not a symptom of smallpox, you dunce," Uzu says before grasping Manu's shoulder.
Manu scowls at Uzu's hand.
"Look. Just go see. She's probably dead by now," Uzu reassures the other man.
BANG
The sliding door of the van closes, and all three men look at the dirty van. They see a form jump into the front seat.
Kelly looks at Uzu, "Do you have the…"
The van starts up. Manu shakes off the other two men's hands and runs for the van.
"Dammit!!" Kelly yells as he dives for the passenger door.
Uzu touches his forehead and groans.
As the car speeds off to the side, back onto the bumpy road, the passenger door flaps open and closed. Kelly grabs the door and is slammed into the side of the vehicle.
"Stop! Stop the car!!" He yells at the woman.
Sia grabs the rifle she picked up from the back area of the van, barrel first, and tries to hit Kelly's head with the hilt of the gun. Kelly releases the door handle and falls to the rocky ground. The rifle slips from Sia's hand and flies out of the doorway.
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